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EPISODE · Jan 20, 2025 · 1H 6M

274. Samuel Beckett's Animal Crossing Letters

from Topic Lords · host Jim Stormdancer

Lords: John https://abbydenton.itch.io/the-blade-of-cutiepants-a-very-cutie-christmas Elena Topics: Potluck advent calendar NES games in my collection that are currently ranked rather low according to Science http://8bitnintendo.science Subtopic: I've grown to love engaging with criticism and differing opinions of silly things I like. How animals read https://jamchamb.net/projects/animal-crossing-letters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy-kIXzX5Cc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGlpWJ80d_Y https://ailbey.tumblr.com/post/750880084257374208 https://www.amazon.com/Dynamic-Wrinkles-Drapery-Solutions-Drawing/dp/0823015874 https://www.drawright.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Colour-Atlas-Human-Anatomy/dp/0723408823 Microtopics: Crispy Shrimp Balls. What makes it Dim Sum? Whether there's always a cart that you roll around. Tapas Lords, a new ASMR podcast. The Blade of Cutie Pants: a Very Cutie Christmas. Christmas Dangerous Dave. Here's a song. I'm going to scroll past that. Stock footage of Godzilla attacks. An album about making games in Kilk n Play. Granny Cream's Hot Butter Ice Cream. Jim's songs in the Hypnospace OST. Knowing a lot of people just by hanging out and being entertaining. Recognizing sounds by looking at them. Tea and Jam Advent Calendars. Tippy Tops. 3D-printed animals with wiggly arms. Taking the economics of Halloween and applying it to Christmas. Stocking Stuffers Every Day. 365-day Advent Calendars. Santa with a Fanta. Showing Home Alone to a kid who already loves setting up traps. An Advent Calendar filled with traps. Never playing board games but opening up the boxes and playing with the pieces. Fake Winstons. Getting 2.5 trinkets from each person. Half-Lego, Half-Chocolate. Why your favorite NES games are terrible. Shipping a game that's no good but damned if it doesn't exist. A Failure of Science. Rare game or Rare game? The Treasure Master walk cycle. The worst NES games with the best soundtracks. British developers succeeding on the Commodore 64 but failing on the NES because people are willing to pay 6 quid for the latest Rob Hubbard track, but not $50. Your neighbor who had Big Nose Freaks Out. Punching the clues. Buying the 3D version of Urban Champion on purpose. Trying to go back to Super Monkey Ball. Nostalgically revisiting your best Super Monkey Ball replays. Accidentally transposing two digits and now you have a Super Monkey Ball world record. Making local copies of videos you want to continue to exist. Recognizing when something works for someone else but not you. Writing letters to your animal neighbors. The seven criteria to judge a letter. How to safely write a letter about VVVVVV to your Animal Crossing neighbor. Roleplaying James Joyce in Animal Crossing. Teaching Animal Crossing a slur and then returning the cartridge to Gamestop. Deciding that it's okay if local news stations freak out. Taking joy in extremely mundane activities. How you spend your moments and how you feel about them. Watching TV so that in several decades you can go to a bar and find out who's the same age as you. Practicing love by trying to love yourself. The breakup song from the Wedding Singer. Corollaries of aphantasia. Blind people watching TV. Learning to draw by studying human anatomy and proportions in detail and imagining the body kinesthetics. Looney Tunes artists making faces in the mirror. Knowing how bones go. The Bone Book. That's Topics!

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